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Post by: Shana A on October 24, 2010, 07:35:06 AM
Wagons & wigs
Oct 24, 2010 12:00 AM | By Lin Sampson
Lin Sampson meets three farmworkers who believe they are girls

http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/article719936.ece/Wagons--amp--wigs (http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/article719936.ece/Wagons--amp--wigs)

Pietie Klaasen is a farm worker on Hazendal, a historic wine farm outside Stellenbosch. He is wearing high-heeled silver sandals, a tinkling charm bracelet and green eye shadow. His two front teeth are missing which puts a crack in his smile.

"Please call me Melanie," he says.

Pietie is an expert on pesticides but his real interest is dressing like a girl and gardening. "Oh, my roses, I love my roses.